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Statistics & Data Science: 36-726 Statistical Practice: Finding scholarly research and news

This guide provides links to resources useful for finding scholarly literature, data and other information for background research and literature reviews for course projects.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

You can set up a link from Google Scholar to CMU Libraries' catalog to make connecting to full text resources easier. For more information, see the Libraries Google Scholar Links page.

Dissertations & Theses

Dissertations and theses can be rich sources of relevant resources and scholarly literature, as well as provide detailed research methodology. You can find the full text of dissertations and theses in the Dissertations & Theses Global Database.

Multidisciplinary databases

Other Subject Databases

Finding the News

To access individual newspapers or find articles that you come across online, go to the library homepage and click on the Journals link above the main search box. From there, search for the title of the newspaper. We have current access to most major newspapers through a variety of platforms. For direct links to common newspapers, see the list below. For a more in-depth guide to find news, including historical and international, see the Newspapers Research Guide.